Slack integration

Get a Slack notification when a post is published, scheduled, or fails — straight into the channel of your choice.

The Slack integration drops a message in a channel of your choice every time a Carousify post is scheduled, published, or fails to publish. No bot install, no app review queue — Slack gives you a webhook URL, you paste it into Carousify, and notifications start landing.

This is the simplest way to keep a team in the loop without anyone having to refresh the Carousify dashboard.

Slack’s official Incoming Webhooks app is what we use for this. It’s a one-way pipe from Carousify into your Slack channel — Carousify can post messages, but it can’t read anything from your workspace.

What gets sent

Carousify will post a Slack message for whichever of these three events you tick:

Event	When it fires
Post Scheduled	A post is queued for a future date and time.
Post Published	A post goes live on LinkedIn (instant or scheduled).
Post Publish Failed	LinkedIn rejected the post or auth expired before publishing.

Each message includes a preview of the post, the LinkedIn account it was posted to (or attempted on), the scheduled/published time, and a link to the post on LinkedIn.

Before you start

You’ll need:

• A Slack workspace where you can install apps (or admin who can do it for you)
• Carousify open in another tab — you’ll be moving between the two

Step 1 — Open the Connect Slack modal in Carousify

In Carousify, go to Manage Workspace › Integrations and click Connect on the Slack card.

You’ll see four inputs:

Field	What it is
Webhook Name	A label for this integration inside Carousify (e.g. Carousify Notifications). Doesn’t show up in Slack.
Events	Which of the three events should trigger a Slack message.
Webhook URL	The URL Slack will give you in Step 3.
View Slack Docs	Opens this page.

Leave the modal open — you’ll come back to it after generating the webhook URL inside Slack.

Step 2 — Open Slack’s Incoming Webhooks app

Slack’s official Incoming Webhooks app is what gives you the URL to paste back. Open it directly:

slack.com/apps/A0F7XDUAZ-incoming-webhooks

Pick the right Slack workspace from the team selector at the top-right if you have more than one, then click Add to Slack.

Slack labels Incoming Webhooks as a “legacy custom integration” with a deprecation notice on the page. It’s still fully supported and is the right tool for one-way notifications like ours — but yes, the warning is there.

Step 3 — Pick a channel

Slack opens a New configuration page. Under Post to Channel, type or pick the channel you want Carousify alerts to land in (a #social channel works well, or a private dedicated one).

Click Add Incoming WebHooks integration.

Use a private channel if you don’t want every Slack member to see every Carousify event. Webhook URLs only post to the channel you set up here — you can’t accidentally fan it out to others.

Step 4 — Copy the webhook URL

Slack lands you on the configuration page with the Webhook URL at the top. It looks like https://hooks.slack.com/services/... followed by a long token unique to your workspace.

Click Copy URL (or copy it manually from the field further down the page under Integration Settings).

This URL is a secret — anyone who has it can post messages to that channel as the webhook bot. Don’t paste it into a public channel, a screenshot, or a doc that’s shared outside your team. If it leaks, click Regenerate on this page to rotate it.

You can also customize the bot’s name and icon further down the page if you want messages to read as “Carousify” instead of “incoming-webhook”.

Step 5 — Paste it back into Carousify and pick events

Switch back to the Carousify Connect Slack Webhook modal:

1. Give it a Webhook Name — something you’ll recognize later, like Carousify Notifications or #social channel.
2. Click Events and tick the events you want sent — Post Scheduled, Post Published, Post Publish Failed, or any combination.
3. Paste the Slack URL into the Webhook URL field.

Click Create Webhook. Carousify saves it and the Slack card flips from Inactive to Active.

Troubleshooting

• Nothing shows up in Slack. Double-check the webhook URL was pasted in full (it ends with a long token), the Slack channel still exists, and you ticked at least one event. Send a test from Slack itself by running curl -X POST -H 'Content-type: application/json' --data '{"text":"test"}' YOUR_WEBHOOK_URL — if that lands, the problem is on the Carousify side; reconnect the integration.
• Messages stopped suddenly. Most likely the webhook was revoked in Slack (someone removed the Incoming WebHooks custom integration, or rotated the URL). Generate a new URL in Slack and update it via View on the Slack card in Carousify.
• Notifications going to the wrong channel. Each Slack webhook URL is locked to one channel. To switch channels, generate a new webhook in Slack against the new channel and replace the URL in Carousify.

What’s next

Set up Zapier

Same three events, but routed through Zapier into anything else.

Schedule a post

Trigger your first Post Scheduled message and confirm Slack is wired up.

Approval workflow

Layer manager review on top of scheduled posts.

MCP server

Drive Carousify from Claude or VS Code when notifications aren’t enough.